Index
Abbott, Steve
273
abjection
252, 254, 266, 282, 301
activism
98, 103, 254, 256–257, 269–270, 274–275
affect
13–18, 23, 107–109, 147, 173, 217, 252–253, 258–264, 272–274, 279, 283–285, 296, 298, 300, 306
Anthropocene
54, 73, 75, 227, 248
African Philosophy
225, 231, 236, 248, 249, 251
African verbal art
225, 249–250
Akhmatova, Anna
286–289, 305–306
Albanian poetry
188–189
Alighieri, Dante
112
apostrophe
4, 48, 76–78, 81–88, 110n, 114, 124, 127–128, 189, 207, 210–211, 213, 218, 253, 258, 260, 263, 272–273, 298
Arab Nationalism
220–221
Aristotle
244
austerity
197, 199
autobiography
66, 96, 98–107, 202–203, 284
autothanatography
268–269
Barad, Karen
1–2
Bardazzi, Adele
3, 110n
Baroque
134, 136, 140–141, 143, 291, 304
Barthes, Roland
36n, 48, 50, 81, 83
Baudelaire, Charles
295
Beam, Joseph
270, 273
Beauvoir, Simone de
126–128
Bei Dao
22–23
belonging-together
55, 231
Berryman, John
286
Bishop, Elizabeth
43, 147
Black Lives Matter
3, 72, 274n, 275
Book of Lamentations
186, 279
Brecht, Bertolt
137
Britton, Donald
273
Buddhism
94, 95, 100–101, 285–286, 297, 299–300, 305
burial
49n, 83–84, 86, 166, 168, 194, 210, 217–218, 239, 241, 243, 295, 302
Butler, Judith
62–63, 72, 252n, 280, 290
Candlelight Movement
99, 106
Canaletto
134
catastrophe
12–14, 24, 54, 56, 113, 135, 170, 188, 272
Cavalli, Patrizia
110–111, 113–116, 119–123, 128, 130–131
Cavarero, Adriana
113
Carson, Anne
48
Celan, Paul
137, 139, 149
Chang, Victoria
4, 32, 43, 49
Christianity
77n, 185–186, 191–192, 194, 238, 286, 297, 301–303, 305
climate change elegies
11, 12, 24, 155
consciousness
16n, 22, 57, 64, 66, 72, 106, 114, 167, 184, 245, 250, 255
contemporary song-lyrics
100, 183–186, 197–200, 236–237
counterpublic
255
Culler, Jonathan
48, 110n, 111, 207, 253, 279
Damrosch, David
22, 23
Democratic Republic of Congo
225, 237, 239
Derrida, Jacques
14, 36n, 45–46, 176, 280, 285, 292–293
Dimoula, Kiki
193–194
Dylan, Bob
198
Edo period
5, 286
Eliot, Thomas Stearns
192, 268
Elytis, Odysseas
188–190, 192, 195
embodied memory
94, 103–104
environment
2, 12, 53–54, 60, 61–65, 69–73, 166, 178, 248
entanglement
1–6, 36, 121, 126, 261
extinction/Anthropocene elegies
61, 66, 73, 74
experimental poetry/concrete poetry
79–80, 136, 154–157, 203–204
Frabotta, Biancamaria
110–114, 117–120
Frank, Arthur W.
113
Freud, Sigmund
47, 52, 57–64, 154, 184, 216, 272, 274, 276–280, 302
Fuss, Diana
192, 258
Galanaki, Rea
195
Generation of 1930
185–188, 190, 192–193
Ginsberg, Allen
257
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
14, 149
Grünbein, Durs
4, 135–137, 140, 146, 148
haiku
286, 300
Han Kang
94n, 96–97, 99
Haraway, Donna
73–74
Harrison, Robert Pogue
49n
Homer
186
illness
38, 45, 100, 110–111, 113–114, 116, 120–121, 124, 126, 128, 130–131, 258, 261, 267–268, 273
irony
71, 135, 139–140, 146, 199, 204, 212, 215, 242, 244, 250, 285, 298
Issa, Kobayashi
283–288, 294, 297, 302
Jonson, Ben
280–281, 297, 300, 305
Judaism
282, 297
Kavafis, Kostantinos
126
Keats, John
207, 209, 262, 266
kintsugi
148
Klein, Michael
253–255, 264, 268
Korean shamanic chant
99–100
Lacan, Jacques
21–22, 24, 33, 45, 123
lament
5, 28, 53, 57–58, 64, 66–67, 69–72, 84, 95–96, 107, 111, 113–114, 118, 160, 182–200, 204, 208, 213, 214, 233, 242–243, 250, 261, 262, 268, 278–280, 285, 287–288, 291, 295, 297–298, 305, 306
Leopardi, Giacomo
112, 117–118, 120
Levinas, Emmanuel
126
lyric present
48, 83, 207, 211n
Mallarmé, Stéphane
257, 293–297, 305–306
Mahler, Gustav
267–268, 293–294, 296
materialism
117–118, 247, 248
materiality
80, 153, 155, 159, 162, 170, 173
Mbiti, John
225–227, 230, 231, 233, 236, 238, 248
melancholia
5, 32, 40, 47, 54, 57–60, 64, 154, 253, 255–256, 271–272, 282, 283, 295
Merrill, James
252, 257, 265
Miller, Jacques Alain
16, 21, 24
Miłosz, Czesław
146–147
Moretti, Franco
24
Nagy, Gregory
184
Nineties Generation (Egypt)
202, 204, 212n, 214
Nyasa
243
obituary
30, 34, 38, 40, 43, 47
Oswald, Alice
285
Owen, Wilfred
192
pandemic elegies
19, 253–256, 265, 272, 274–276
Percheron, Antoine
49
Pessoa, Fernando
126
Petrarca, Francesco
38, 112–113
Plath, Sylvia
40
Poe, Edgar Allan
209
politics
17–18, 63, 78–80, 87, 90, 149, 212, 255, 257, 264
Porter, Max
48
post-9/11 elegies
70
precarity
62–63, 76–77, 82, 86, 88, 147, 153–159, 161–162, 164–169, 173–174, 177, 178
prose-poetry
31–36, 38, 40, 41, 47–49, 125, 187, 189, 204, 206, 212, 255, 284–285, 292, 300
queer elegies
87–88, 252–271
quantum physics
3–6
Ramazani, Jahan
32, 34, 41, 50, 52, 57, 58, 72, 75, 109, 112, 147, 192, 253, 269, 272
repetition
54, 55, 65, 71, 78, 82, 116, 155–169, 172–174, 184, 230, 278, 281, 294
revision
4–5, 27, 253, 269
Rich, Adrienne
257
Riley, Denise
40n
Rilke, Rainer Maria
58, 61–62, 65–66, 69, 73, 261, 286
ritual
5, 11, 14, 16–18, 25, 87–90, 100–102, 136, 162, 167, 169, 173, 179, 189, 205–206, 210, 227, 228, 261, 280–281, 283
Rückert, Friedrich
267–268, 293–296, 298, 305, 306
Sacks, Peter
64, 154–156, 162, 170n, 178, 184–185, 279
secular
78–80, 82–87, 89–90, 258, 301
Seferis, George
187, 190, 192, 197
self-elegy
4, 43, 49, 93, 108–110, 129, 229, 241, 247, 266–267
Shakespeare, William
24, 123
shamanism
93, 99–101, 106, 161
Shikibu, Izumi
298–300, 303, 305
silence
23, 46, 87, 112, 123, 173, 195, 235, 253, 255–256, 291
Spargo, Clifton R.
3, 32–33, 46, 57–58, 109
Stevens, Wallace
192–193, 261
Tagore, Rabindranath
289–291, 297, 306
temporality
32, 40, 48, 54, 260
transnational
2–6, 12–13, 20, 24, 34, 112, 127, 131, 278, 294
trauma
93, 99, 103, 105–106, 124, 133, 148, 155–156
Travers, Sir Arthur
134
Tsvetaeva, Marina
289–290, 297, 306
Ungaretti, Giuseppe
291–292, 294, 305–306
Whitman, Walt
261
Williams, Carlos Williams
192, 259
Wordsworth, William
162, 296–297, 302, 305